Authorizations and inspections will start at 9:30

This will be followed by a double-elimination, Atlantian speed tourney, which will be the rapier Tritan Tourney.  This will start at 10:15 sharp.

This will be followed by a capture-the-flag resurrection field battle, with multiple timepoints for checking on flag ownership – this will ensure everyone gets in sufficient melee fighting before the heat of the day! 

We will then have a brief break for lunch and setting up the afternoon theme-based scenarios (in no particular order):

1.  Since BotB is a Lochmere/Storvik event, we will have a “Capture/Defend the Baroness” scenario with a teddy-bear baroness for each of the two sides.  

2.  The theme for the event is “Song and Saga” – but who can tell sagas without appropriate beverages?  We will have a “gather the mead” scenario – there will be a central bucket full of water, and each fighter will be given a cup for gathering water and bringing it back to your team’s bucket, which will be located near your res point.  You may also steal water from the other team’s bucket if they are so foolish as to leave their mead hall (res point) undefended.   You may not carry a weapon in a hand holding a cup.

3.  Of course, you also can’t tell songs without your skald!  Each team will select one individual to be their skald, who you must keep alive.

4. Chaos melees: small team, single-life melees with new people being constantly fed in, creating chaos.  This is great training for large-scale melees in which you find yourself with different people coming back from res.